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  1. Re:The bigotry really bothers me on Conservative Textbook Curriculum Passes Final Vote In Texas · · Score: 1

    It is a federal encroachment upon liberty. Two wrongs do not make a right. If SCOTUS had never gutted the 14th amendment through the Slaughterhouse ruling, and subsequently if the federal government not turned a blind eye to state and local governments violations of what was left of the 14th and the entirety of the 15th amendment then segregated ares would never have stayed around as long as they did. It was only with the complicity of government to restrain freedoms that things got as bad as they did.

  2. Re:Wrong reasons for condemning. on Conservative Textbook Curriculum Passes Final Vote In Texas · · Score: 1

    From a technical standpoint that's really the correct term. There would have been no reason for it without the third leg because there would have been no export that relied on slave labor.

  3. Re:Mandatory note for Texas School Board: on Conservative Textbook Curriculum Passes Final Vote In Texas · · Score: 1

    If you believe that text books anywhere are unbiased you've got mental blinders on the size of Alaska

    FTFY

  4. Re:How will other states react? on Conservative Textbook Curriculum Passes Final Vote In Texas · · Score: 1

    What part of Califonia is so deep in debt they don't have enough money to pay for special print runs was so hard to understand?

  5. Re:Time to stop relying on Texas... on Conservative Textbook Curriculum Passes Final Vote In Texas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And there in Germany you were stupid enough to try and shore up Greek debt which is not actually going to fix anything and in fact will merely encourage other debtor states to keep rollicking along. I can't see that the difference in education systems has helped you.

  6. Re:Time to stop relying on Texas... on Conservative Textbook Curriculum Passes Final Vote In Texas · · Score: -1, Troll

    Item 1.) There's a giant fucking example of this outside the front door of the UN in the form of the Colt Python statue. There's areason they didn't use the AK, and that's because they're concerned with removing freedoms and not actually stopping illicit arms trafficking.

    Item 2.) Sooo, according to you we're just supposed to let insurmountable debt pile up and the entitlement programs to swallow the majority of government funding?

    Item 3.) Jefferson was a little bitch and the only reason he made that comment was to pacify a bunch of islamic pirates instead of letting the Marines finish kicking their ass like he should have. Yes he was instrumental in cribbing the vast, vast majority of the DoI and Consitution from a bunch of kick-ass people, but that does not excuse his later conduct.

    For the most part the rest is more of the same. Except the Showboat part. That's just bizarre. Not harmful though.

  7. Re:Time to stop relying on Texas... on Conservative Textbook Curriculum Passes Final Vote In Texas · · Score: 1

    Which is why we've all taken up eugenics.

  8. Re:Usually not a good idea..... on Cheap Incubator Backpack Could Reduce Infant Deaths · · Score: 1

    Bzzzt, wrong. When all definitions are equal, including that of INFANT, we have the lowest infant mortality rate of 1st world countries.

  9. Re:Both, of course on UC Berkeley Asking Incoming Students For DNA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The self employment tax was thought up entirely by democrats. Considering that the vast mjority of people who self employ are the type who would gladly give up SocSec and Medicare in return for that extra 15%, I'm pretty damned sure that counts as stepping on self employment.

  10. Re:Both, of course on UC Berkeley Asking Incoming Students For DNA · · Score: 1

    I've never understood why people want the more uncontrollable and schizophrenic bully to protect them from the more controllable and less schizohpenic bullies.

  11. Re:Both, of course on UC Berkeley Asking Incoming Students For DNA · · Score: 1

    Um, no? Merely because a body politic has shattered and devolved into a grim parody of the warlords of past ages does not mean that government has disappeared.

  12. Re:Both, of course on UC Berkeley Asking Incoming Students For DNA · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Collecting people's DNA and using it to screen things isn't a NEW idea at all. Merely the screening process has evolved. Eugenics is quite old.

  13. Re:Why?? on Why I Steal Movies (Even Ones I'm In) · · Score: 1

    No, it would be as if you copied the car and prevented the owner from renting it to YOU unless you decided it was a kick ass car and rented it anyway. Not to others.

  14. Re:Fight them on California Moves To Block Texas' Textbook Changes · · Score: 1

    Which is why the textbooks in question sideline TJ in FAVOR of Locke and others. Quite honestly apart from his participation in the formation of the country and the fact that he was smart enough to crib his material from some really kick ass sources, TJ wasn't exactly a good guy. As a president he was rather abysmal.

  15. Re: Military healthcare on Defense Chief Urges Big Cuts In Military Spending · · Score: 2, Insightful

    SocSec would be eminently sustainable if it were pegged to the average life expectancy with a 5 year lag between the rate and when it was implemented. Which is currently over 77 years old.

  16. Re:Don't worry BP ... on How Bad Is the Gulf Coast Oil Spill? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, the price of shrimp is going to shoot through the roof for the next 3-5 years.

  17. Re:It's not really that bad on How Bad Is the Gulf Coast Oil Spill? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Actually, it's been modified to Drill, after assuring that the requisite safety systems that were already supposed to be installed, are installed, baby Drill. This wasn't so much of a problem because of the rig itself blowing up as the safety systems which were supposed to have been installed at the drill site itself not being there.

    Also, everybody notes the schtick about BP being forced to pay for this, but I'm pretty sure that won't suss out legally.

  18. Re:Troubles with the plot on Avatar Blu-Ray DRM Issues · · Score: 1

    An otherwise good film? The technical aspects of the CGI and Colonel FuckYeah! were the only "good" parts of this film. Eating a shit sandwich on a Krispy Kreme doughnut does not make it any less of a shit sandwich.

  19. Re:DRM on Avatar Blu-Ray DRM Issues · · Score: 1

    Damn, I bought mine a year later when it was called Fern Gully.

  20. Re:Two Stupid People on Palin Email Snoop Found Guilty On 2 Charges · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except it wasn't the 'obvious password' which did them in, it was the lame drop-box security questions. Make it so all security questions are chosen when the account is created, and not selected from some stupid list, and your problem is solved.

  21. Re:What about the presumption of innocence? on Arizona "Papers, Please" Law May Hit Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    While that applies to federal immigration detainees, it almost certainly won't apply to state actions.

  22. Re:From what I've heard, it really is that bad... on Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? · · Score: 1

    !0:1 says every engine had the majority of components replaced if not completely new engines.

  23. Re:Who exactly is fighting back? on Climate Researchers Fight Back · · Score: 1, Troll

    The shoe industry is involved in climate science? Or are you talking about the oil industry which makes 7-10% profit per year, 5-8% less than what the federal government taxes their product at, plus the additional state taxes upon their product.

  24. Re:I wonder how long until it "accidentally" leaks on South Park's Episode 201 — the Expurgated Version · · Score: 1

    Which is a shitty translation from the original Hebrew done because ol Jamie boy was paranoid about witches. Your point?

  25. Re:I wonder how long until it "accidentally" leaks on South Park's Episode 201 — the Expurgated Version · · Score: 1

    But can they be techno-savvy AND post on slashdot convincingly?